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The Worst Episodes of Destination Fear

You saw him on Ghost Adventures, now, Dakota Laden takes his sister and best friend on a cross-country road trip to visit the most haunted...

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  1. 7.6/10(117 votes)

    #1 - Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary

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    Dakota meets the team in Tennessee to investigate the dark corridors of Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. Chelsea has a confrontation with an entity inside James Earl Ray's cell. Tanner is threatened. Dakota's fear experiment takes a turn.

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  2. 8.0/10(65 votes)

    #2 - Old Bourbon Distillery

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    S2:E8

    The team heads to Kentucky to explore one of America's oldest bourbon distilleries. Dakota has a theory that quick and violent deaths cause some of the most intense hauntings, and he believes this sprawling house of horrors is just the place to test it.

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  3. 8.2/10(95 votes)

    #3 - Old South Pittsburg Hospital

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    The team pushes itself to the edge of sanity as they explore a notoriously haunted hospital in Tennessee. Dakota and Chelsea's sibling bond is tested when she is confronted by an aggressive entity with a grudge against women on the third floor.

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  4. 8.2/10(63 votes)

    #4 - Cambria County Jail

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    Convinced total isolation and disorientation is the only way to push fear to its absolute limits.

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  5. 8.2/10(63 votes)

    #5 - Sheboygan County Asylum

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    S2:E6

    Dakota brings the road trip to its most chilling overnight yet, inside a shuttered Wisconsin asylum.

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  6. 8.2/10(68 votes)

    #6 - Missouri State Penitentiary

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    Dakota blindsides the team when he decides to amp up the fear at a notorious prison. The ghost of a child kidnapper tries to communicate with Chelsea.

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  8. 8.2/10(62 votes)

    #7 - Ohio State Reformatory

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    All bets are off when Tanner picks one of America’s most depraved prisons to investigate – the Ohio State Reformatory, also known for its role in The Shawshank Redemption. He unveils a fear experiment so diabolical that the team is forced to decide whether to part ways or to continue on this road trip from hell together.

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  9. 8.2/10(61 votes)

    #8 - Greene County Almshouse

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    S3:E5

    Fed up with Tanner’s and Dakota’s experiments, Chelsea picks a revenge location unlike any other. The dark, untapped energy of this Pennsylvania poorhouse is overwhelming, and it forces the team to make a stunning decision to save their sanity.

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  10. 8.3/10(81 votes)

    #9 - Eloise Psychiatric Hospital

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    Dakota, Chelsea and Tanner investigate one of the most-haunted locations in Michigan — Eloise Psychiatric Hospital. The team begins to lose its grip on reality as it is subjected to unexplained screams, slamming doors and rampant poltergeist activity.

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  11. 8.3/10(71 votes)

    #10 - Pennhurst State School

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    S1:E10

    The team faces their biggest paranormal challenge yet when they roll up to an abandoned asylum in Spring City, Pa.; hissing, violent entities within the asylum leave them wondering if they'll ever return home from their terrifying road trip.

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  12. 8.4/10(74 votes)

    #11 - Statler Hotel

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    S1:E7

    Dakota's team is pushed to their limits when they check into a historic hotel in Buffalo, NY. Disembodied voices and shadows are everywhere, but the haunted elevators prove most terrifying when communications fail and they each find themselves alone.

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  13. 8.4/10(73 votes)

    #12 - Fairfield County Infirmary

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    S1:E9

    The team's terrifying road trip takes them to a house of horrors in Lancaster, Ohio. When Dakota tasks each member to explore the property all alone, Alex encounters something so evil it wouldn’t be believed if not caught on video.

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  14. 8.4/10(66 votes)

    #13 - Old Montana Prison

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    The team investigates a former Montana Prison haunted by dark entities known for choking, shaking and possessing visitors, one team member must overcome his fear of violent spirits to survive the night behind the walls of the vile place.

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  15. 8.4/10(64 votes)

    #14 - Randolph County Infirmary

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    The team returns to Indiana to explore an abandoned facility that has haunted Tanner’s nightmares for the past five years. He has only now mustered up the courage to confront who -- or what -- terrorized him during their first investigation.

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  16. 8.4/10(63 votes)

    #15 - Fort Knox

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    The team is left with less-than-warm feelings for Dakota when he hatches a chilling plan to communicate with the dead at an abandoned fort in Prospect, Maine. Things get even more heated when a ghostly caretaker threatens to throw them all out into the cold.

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  17. 8.5/10(79 votes)

    #16 - Madison Seminary

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    S1:E6

    Dark forces conspire against the team as they investigate the Madison Seminary, one of the most-haunted locations in Ohio. Terrifying voices, shadow figures and physical contact with a demonic entity leaves them stunned and shaken to the core.

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  18. 8.5/10(75 votes)

    #17 - West Virginia State Penitentiary

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    The team heads to Moundsville, West Virginia, to investigate what was once one of the top ten most-violent prisons in America. Dakota fears he may have to leave some part of his soul behind after he is targeted in a horrific physical attack.

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  19. 8.5/10(72 votes)

    #18 - Nopeming Sanatorium

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    Dakota, Chelsea and Tanner head home to face the horror of their childhood nightmares, Minnesota's most-notorious sanatorium.

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  20. 8.5/10(64 votes)

    #19 - Hill View Manor

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    The team heads to Pennsylvania to investigate a former home for the destitute and elderly, determined to conquer the terror inside, but things go horribly wrong during a dire paranormal-induced emergency.

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  21. 8.5/10(55 votes)

    #20 - Old Idaho Prison

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    After many nights of torment by the paranormal, Alex finally gets his chance to pick a haunted location for the team to investigate. And he is ready to get even. He has planned the most terrifying experiment for Dakota yet at an infamous Idaho prison.

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  22. 8.5/10(58 votes)

    #21 - Twin Bridges Orphanage

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    S3:E9

    Twin Bridges Orphanage, located in Twin Bridges, Montana, is an abandoned orphanage with a tragic and horrific history. The utter sadness and devastation of the orphanage’s children permeates every corner of the building with a deep, dark energy. Dakota finds himself communicating with someone – or something – that may not be what it seems.

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  23. 8.5/10(55 votes)

    #22 - Loftus Hall

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  24. 8.6/10(86 votes)

    #23 - St. Albans Sanatorium

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    The team reveals a terrifying twist when they revisit St. Albans Sanatorium in Radford, Virginia, a location so awful that Chelsea quit last time and vowed she would never return. Can the trio conquer St. Albans before it conquers them again?

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  25. 8.6/10(68 votes)

    #24 - Yorktown Memorial Hospital

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    The team investigates a Texas hospital with a gruesome history, including a brutal double homicide. Once under the direction of Catholic nuns, the abandoned building’s chapel may house a demonic entity with its sights set on Dakota!

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  26. 8.6/10(70 votes)

    #25 - Saratoga County Homestead

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    Dakota leads Chelsea, Tanner and Alex to a decaying sanitarium where some patient corpses were unclaimed due to a flu pandemic. Screams and darting shadows play mind games with the team as they struggle to pin the activity on the living or the dead.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary" is the worst rated episode of "Destination Fear". It scored 7.6/10 based on 117 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/26/2019. This episode scored 0.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Old Bourbon Distillery".